On 24/07/2024 14:56, Hibby via wsjt-devel wrote:
Hey Neil,
Don't worry - bubble not burst. I'm choosing to not pick a fight about
the specific licensing of the binaries. Arguments about licensing are
full of opinions and not very fun. They usually end up in flame wars and
cold disagreement, as I think we can see from the previous discussion. I
have expressed my opinions via other media as this is not the
appropriate stage and people are welcome to disagree via those media.
Putting licensing aside and coming back to more solid facts and
discussion of development - we can't include the binaries without the
source in Debian (and secondly, we can't include them in debian-nonfree
repo without explicit permission to redistribute them from Joe) - this
has been said by another Debian maintainer on the list already. It is
standard policy for Debian, part of our social contract and free
software guidelines [1] that drive the OS.
This means that everyone who chooses to 'apt install wsjtx' or use an in
built appstore from our package of rc5 onwards *doesn't* get superfox
signing and doesn't get the protection from pirates the feature is meant
to offer *unless* they are linux-capable enough to source the binaries
for their platform and put them in the correct folder themselves. We can
put in an interim solution of shipping something in the nonfree repo
which myon asked earlier but didn't get a response to.
This flows down to users of Ubuntu, Mint, Raspberry Pi OS and other
systems, which doesn't seem very fair. Also, as far as I'm aware the
binaries don't support all of the architectures that we do, so it limits
users from being able to play with weird and wonderful machines like risc-v!
[1] https://www.debian.org/social_contract
<https://www.debian.org/social_contract>
Cheers,
--
Hibby
Debian Developer
Packet Radioist
MM0RFN
I agree with all the above.
This also applies to Mageia.
Barry
G4MKT
(WSJTX packager for Mageia Linux)
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